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Soft wheat bread, creamy peanut butter spread thinly on both pieces of bread, and strawberry jam in the center. Exquisite.

Nothing recently but in our early years of marriage we invited my in-laws for Thanksgiving. My husband and I were taking the turkey out of the oven when we lost control of it and it went skidding across the vinyl kitchen floor and into the dining room. Our cat, who'd been known to stalk and bring home mice, rabbits, even a dead crow or two, went after it with a vengeance. We grabbed the cat, salvaged the turkey and rinsed it off. We'd just finished cleaning the floor when in-laws pulled into the driveway.

Bread. And homemade cinnamon rolls. Grew up on them (large family). When my own children were young I bought a bread machine, although kneading is great for relieving stress. But then the kids insisted on growing up and leaving for college. (Ungrateful, don't you think?) I can't make bread in small enough quantities to stay fresh for only two people. So now the bread machine left us, too, and I buy it at bakeries and grocery stores. So sad.

What about diner? Menu is broad but filled with good home-style type cooking. Comfort food, and isn't that what we all want since no one is cooking anymore?
Sara Garrigan
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